----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:02
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Use of
ultrasound routinely to check for breech position!!!!!
I agree that there's no point in scanning at 36/40. But it is
happening (in Qld) and the women don't seem to be given any explanation except
'just to check the baby's ok'. And it's not just a quick scan for
presentation, but the full thing.
And scans aren't foolproof. I remember a woman who was scanned and
thought to be having twins, the obstetric team flew in (country hospital) and
also scanned her and agreed that there were twins. At the LUSCS a very
large almost 11 pound single baby was born! More recently in a tertiary
centre a woman in labour at 28 weeks was thought to be having twins. She
had a LUSCS and again a single baby.
There has recently been some research results that indicate ultrasound
scanning in mice is causing to brain tumours. Doesn't look
good......
Cheers
Michelle
Lisa Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I would like to share my experience of this
over the past week.( with the permission of my client of
course)
I have a client who's baby was breech until
33/34 weeks after using natural therapies I felt that it had turned.
At 37+ weeks she felt huge movements then nothing for 2 days.
She went to the local hospital for a check over(It was a Saturday and she
didn't want to bother me so didn't ring until she was there). Baby was
fine but found to be breech confirmed on scan just quickly run over her
abdomen. After a huge discussion of all options she decided she'd
still birth at home but would like a cephalic version just to see if that
was possible. The Tuesday morning (now 38 weeks) I made an appointment
and off we went. When we were there she was palpated by a hospital
midwife and the obstetrician. Confirmed breech. When the scan
was put on her before the procedure the baby was cephalic.
When I made the appointment the obstetrician
said to me, oh don't worry anyone could miss a breech assuming that I had
made a mistake. However What if the scanner over the weekend who
couldn't tell anything but that it was breech was mistaken (I wasn't there
so don't know!!)
Or what if some babies just move around right
up until the end. Either way there would have been no point scanning
her at 36 weeks.
Lisa Barrett,
Midwife
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